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A Model-Driven Approach for Converting UML Model to OWL-S Ontology  

Kim, Il-Woong (연세대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Lee, Kyong-Ho (연세대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters / v.13, no.3, 2007 , pp. 179-192 More about this Journal
Abstract
Based on ontologies, semantic Web services enable the discovery, selection, and composition. OWL-S is a do facto standard ontology for describing semantics of Web services. Due to the difficulty of the OWL-S grammar, the teaming curve for constructing OWL-S description manually can be steep. This paper presents an efficient method for generating OWL-S descriptions from UML diagrams, which are widely used for software design and development. The proposed method is based on UML profiles to generate an OWL-S ontology from sequence or activity diagrams, which represent the behavior of a business process. Specifically, an XMI file extracted from UML diagrams is transformed into an OWL-S description via an XSLT script. Experimental results with a large volume of UML diagrams show that the proposed method deals with the control flow of complex processes and is superior to previous methods.
Keywords
Semantic Web Services; UML; MDA; OWL-S;
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